Re: [ecasound] problem with path on 2.6.0 and latest dev snapshot

From: Jason Galyon <jgalyon@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Jul 06 2009 - 19:10:04 EEST

Kai Vehmanen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Jason Galyon wrote:
>
>> using either 2.6.0 final or ecasound-2.7.0+dev-20090422 I get an error
>> with input of files as below unless I copy them to a shorter path and
>> then run ecasound. I have for troubleshooting purposes set the mode
>> recursively to 777 for the sound files and directories up the hierarchy.
> [...]
>> root@email-addr-hidden-12-31-39-00-41-42:~# ecasound
>> -i:/root/testbed/35007382172981-199_080608-ECLvcl-124111921021993500-16-9/assets/8/c/a/8ca77b3d-1fc3-463c-a340-1da8fe7442d8.mp3
>>
>
> oh boy, this was one stupid bug. Thanks for your perseverance with
> this problem! I now figured this bug was introduce to 2.5.2 with
> following commit:
>
> --cut--
> commit 8917a0f6602bd6098dffe434f008458cb1199549
> Author: Kai Vehmanen <kvehmanen -at- eca -dot- cx>
> Date: Fri Jul 11 01:22:46 2008 +0300
>
> Added new '-E' ecasound frontend option.
> --cut--
>
> ... unfortunately I had not booted up my brain properly when
> committing that (or it had been in continuous use for too long ;)) and
> as the result, the change to frontend parser is simply braindead ('-E'
> is a frontend option and not handled by the libecasound parser). As a
> result, any argument containing "-E" substring was not correctly
> passed to libecasound. :( D'oh!
>
> This also explains the earlier problems you have reported in April:
>
> "problem with long command line parsing?"
> http://www.eca.cx/ecasound-list/2009/04/0038.html
>
> ... e.g. in this case, "-o
> /Users/jayson/tmp/pymgen_tmp/GZC24e/audio-Et9gws.aac" had the infamous
> substring and was not correctly passed forward.
>
> Sorry about the hassle! Bugs of this magnitude really should not slip
> through to releases.
>
> Fix was just committed to the git repo, and here's also a snapshot:
> http://ecasound.seul.org/download/snapshots/ecasound-2.7.0+dev-20090705.tar.gz
>
Aha! Well I am glad I could help in some little way. I love ecasound :)

Thanks a ton for your hard work.

-- 
Jason Galyon
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